Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 57
He could fly through the heavens, swim through the seas, or run swiftly over the earth.
Who acts: name · What happens: fly, swim, run · To what, where: heavens, seas, earth
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fly | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fly | aux |
| 3 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 heavens | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heavens | det |
| 6 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fly | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swim | punct |
| 8 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fly | conj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 seas | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 seas | det |
| 11 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 swim | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 run | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 run | cc |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fly | conj |
| 15 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 14 run | advmod |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 earth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 earth | det |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 run | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | could | name | the heavens | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through heaven=Location | ||||
| 2 | swim | present | name not said here | the seas | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through sea=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | run | present | name not said here | the earth | swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over earth=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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